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It's Okay to Be Smart
Tuatara Time! – Face To Face With A Living Fossil!
Season 6
Episode 3
During the 2017 Project For Awesome livestream, I promised I’d make a tuatara video if we hit our fundraising goal, and I’m a man of my word! Little did I know I’d get to meet a tuatara and learn things about a 200 million year old branch of life that would blow my mind. Get ready to meet the chillest reptile, weird living fossil, and star of Turtles All The Way Down… the tuatara.

7:35
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12:19
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8:23
The sunlight we see is tens of thousands of years old. How is that possible?

8:19
If humans are so smart, why are our babies so… un-smart?

6:28
How will we do a Green Revolution 2.0?

10:44
Can trees really save us from climate change?

9:43
Could You Be a Chimera?

11:30
I went to NASA in Houston to talk to astronaut Don Pettit.

7:20
Why is ice slippery? It's a more complicated answer than it seems!

11:11
Recycling is broken. Here's how we can fix it.

14:55
People say insects are the food of the future.

11:53
Here’s a rundown of a few of the human body’s biggest evolutionary fails!